#shocker 1989

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TED RAIMI as Pac Man in Shocker (1989) ↳ part 1

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Shocker (1989)

Directed by: Wes Craven Genre: Horror, comedy

CW: Gore?? Mostly blood in excess at times but I can't really say it's that bad. Originally written 11/25/2022

So when this was originally written I had been in the process of watching this movie for the third time in two days. This film had and still does affect me. I love quoting it and sending this reaction gif from it.

GIF by vhs-ninja

Is it any good? Yes.... but it's complicated. A poster like this doesn't quite scream quality does it? I think Shocker boasts a unique experience, though I don't think its good by traditional standards.

So, part of the appeal for me with this film is it's issues. Not quite in the "so bad its good way" either, though that phenomenon has a bit of a roll to play here. There is this bizarre charm to it's wrong or weird choices. It has a sort of sincerity to it which I don't know how to explain without just sitting you in front of the movie and having you watch it.

The movie is absurd and self aware enough about this fact that the bizarre choices end up being very likeable. At the same time, parts of the movie's plot seem haphazard and confusing in their lack of sense. Silliness pervades every aspect of this film.

The movie is an intense cat and mouse thriller, but it's bad guy has electricity powers and says one liners like "Come on boy. Let's take a ride in my Voltswagon!"

And I think it's this strange combination of high angst and on the nose puns that has gripped me so much. There is a certain delight in giggling away as the main character gets attacked by the bad guy who is now possessing a chair. Or a scene the bad guy is making a deal with the devil and the devil appears as a pair of giant lips and says, "You got it, baby".

Shocker fills a niche role where its possible for all these things to coincide. I mean where else will you have a big epic punching match through a series of tv channels?

So, I'm trying to be fair here but there is difficulty in rating this movie because I am very taken with this movie. It's not a great film, but it offers you a great time.

So our movie begins on the football field. Jonathan Parker is your average college football jock.. But is he!?!? Well yes, but he’s got a sordid past that he doesn’t remember (yet). Upon receiving a concussion at practice, he is imbued with psychic powers that activate when he sleeps.

His dreams show him the murders of Horace Pinker, a serial killer who has been killing local families. No one seems to be able to track him at all as he leaves virtually no trace, but Jonathan’s visions give him a pretty precise depiction and even lead him to active crime scenes. Though, confusingly (though frankly it does not matter) it seems as though Jonathan can interact with Pinker in the dreams as well.

Since Johnathan's father's a cop, Jonathan quickly convinces him that he can help the police catch this guy, and that is exactly what they manage to do, though not without a few officers getting brutally murdered along the way.

Well, now that we've caught him- it's time for the electric chair BABY LETS GOOOO and thus begins the meat and potatoes of this movie- the cat and mouse chase between Jonathan and the body hopping electricity wielding Horace.

During all this we get some hilarious moments including my favorite chair scene. Horace posses a handful of people, including a little ten year old. She commandeers a bulldozer to try and kill Jonathan.

The goofiness is peak here.

But as I said, the movie lacks in other areas. Explanations are very short coming. There is no explanation for why Jonathan receives these powers from a concussion- after all this is football we're talking about. Surely every man out there has had at least one before.

Why is only Jonathan's dead girlfriend able to communicate with Horace? I think it's because of the power of love but there is no in universe logic that explains it.

And what about these visions? It seems unclear how much ability Jonathan has to interact with those within it. At some points it seems like they should think him legitimately there, and other times it feels like they couldn't possibly.

I must say though, while there are a plethora of inconsistencies and plot-holes, I was largely unbothered by them. Some how this is one of those movies that tickles my fancy in just the right way so as to get me to not care. It's immaterial and after seeing this movie a total of four times, I've never been left wanting more than I've already been given.

I think I am compelled to give this movie a rating in the 6-7 range, but closer to a six. That being said, I sort of wish everyone and their mothers would see it. That chair scene is a cinematic masterpiece.

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SUMMARY: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

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damn, they really thought they had the next Freddy Krueger over there...

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Well....I made this for sh!ts and giggles. Enjoy!

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Poiser

And the 80's movies week enters its third round.

Today with the Dudes of Wrath. For those Kiss fans still unfamiliar with the Dudes of Wrath, let me tell you that they were an all-star band, or rather a buddy project between Paul Stanley, Desmond Child and Jean Beauvoir, who were joined by a few other not unillustrious names within the hard rock scene to record the theme song for the latest, lively Wes Craven horror film at the time (1).

Which unfortunately flopped, and therefore did not quite live up to expectations as the successor to Freddy Krueger and the A Nightmare on Elm Street series associated with it. And somehow this also applies to its title track, despite hit guarantor Desmond Child. And despite Shocker's undeniable proximity to Alice Cooper's Poison from the latter's mega-seller Trash, on which Desmond famously had nine of his ten fingers in the pie.

Just compare the verses and choruses of both songs without obligation and in a relaxed manner. And perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to also listen to Alice's Spark in the Dark afterwards.

Side Note:

(1) Who would have wanted to miss such an opportunity? Even Vinnie Vincent was once on board one year earlier for The Dream Master soundtrack in '88.

Shocker (1989)

Poison (1989)

Spark in the Dark (1989)

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Ted Raimi's characters as cats (Part 1)

Just recently I made this twitter thread in Russian and decided "why not duplicate my best idea on tumblr", so here I am! (The only difference will be that through the Randomizer I changed the sequence of characters.) 1. Lonely cat

It will take you a long time to ingratiate yourself with his trust. He obviously dealt with bad hosts and is not sure that you need him too, so he sits as far away as possible and tries not to catch the eye. He may be frightened when you stroke him for the first time, but once he gets used to you, he will often lie on your lap.

2. Helper cat

Quiet and only grabs your attention on business. Non-conflict, but you can’t call affectionate either. He's just doing his job for which he's trained. You can quickly become attached to him, however, whether you will achieve his full trust and whether he will become attached to you is an open question.

Aggressive cat

Most fights and you have to hide from him. Definitely took one veterinarian's eye and you'll lose liters of blood trying to deal with him. If there are other pets in the house, then they are finished. And then you.

4. Quiet kitten

He does not hiss, does not fight, but willingly goes to communicate, showing attention through rubbing against your legs. The same lump that falls on all your sore spots and really helps these. It will lick your scratches, trying to help, but in the end it will simply get in the way.

5. Bully kitten

Stole all your bras and hid them in my hiding places. Most likely he drags his couch around the house, and in the spring he screams louder than a siren. Even if he is castrated, it will not help. He pretends to be proud and does not want affection, but if you run a finger along his back, then he is already lying and purring. Sometimes you may find that he is staring into an empty corner.

6. Clueless cat

Silly but loyal. He will follow you on your heels, because otherwise he will be lost. Starts calling for you while standing in the middle of the room because he has lost sight of you. funny walk. He only knows the "Bring" command, but this is not a dog, so he brings not abandoned toys, but someone's corpses.

7. Huckster cat

He negotiated his castration and is with you in a mutually beneficial relationship. As you think. Bargaining with you for food and always getting more than the norm. You are physically unable to refuse him, he knows this and takes advantage of the position.

8. Harmful cat

At first seemed normal, and then you found out that he was once buried in a pet cemetery near a cursed church and he returned with not the best intentions. If you beg him, he will allow you to stroke his head, but nothing more. He scratches all the guests and chases the children.

9. Lost kitten

You found him in a dump and took him home out of pity. As a result, this punk smashed your apartment, shit everywhere and somehow spilled all the beer, but you will not find puddles. And him too. He got lost again! Give this kitten a mint, and then close all the doors and windows so that he does not run away and get lost again.

10. Tired cat

You adopted him from a shelter and knew that it would not be easy with him. Often scratched, hissed and hid from you, but when you have gained his trust, he has become a constant guest in your arms and clings to your clothes with claws when you try to remove him from you.

>> Part 2 >> Part 3

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SILKK THE SHOCKER - THE SHOCKER (1996) || WES CRAVEN - SHOCKER (1989)

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THE DUDES OF WRATH-SHOCKER

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TED RAIMI as Pac Man in Shocker (1989) ↳ part 2

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Cine de Terror: Shocker 100.000 voltios de terror #wescraven #shocker #1989 #proximamente #lostrobinsons https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnu4eZpMy84/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Jewish State Ideas BEFORE Palestine

CRITICAL PREAMBLE: It is important to keep in mind that the idea of building a Jewish State is Zionist. It does not reflect the views of Judaism as a whole, and any antisemetic actions will result in blocking and banning. It is critical now more than ever that we recognize that there is a different. Your issues in Palestine are with ZIONISM, not Judaism. Do NOT associate them as the same. Doing so is a common Zionist tactic to make comments or opinions against Israel be rebutted that it is antisemetic purely because it comments on actions by Israel and their Zionist government and military.

Again, Zionism and Judaism are NOT one in the same, and should not be treated that way.

Anywho, timeline time!

1820 - Ararat City - Grand Island Niagara River in Western New York. Considered a precursor to Zionism as known today.

1902 - Leaugue of Eastern European States - "would entail the establishment of a buffer state (Pufferstaat) within the Jewish Pale of Settlement of Russia, composed of the former Polish provinces annexed by Russia."

Date Unsure - Herzl Plan - "The Jews who wish for a State will have it. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes." His proposed location? Cyprus 1903 - British Uganda Program - Rejected after (shocker) there were lions in Africa. Also "it was populated by a large number of Maasai people, who did not seem at all amenable to an influx of people coming from Europe." fuckin wonder why. Note that some Zionists were concerned it would "make it more difficult to establish a Jewish state in Palestine in Ottoman Syria, particularly the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem" 1928 - Jewish Autonomous Oblast in USSR - Proposed by Russia specifcally to prevent a State of Israel AND done because it viewed Judaism as a threat to the state. "In that sense, it was also a response to two supposed threats to the Soviet state: Judaism, which ran counter to official state policy of atheism; and Zionism, the creation of the modern State of Israel, which countered Soviet views of nationalism. Yiddish, rather than Hebrew, would be the national language, and a new socialist literature and arts would replace religion as the primary expression of culture." Also included the idea of a JSR in Crimea or "part of Ukraine, however these were rejected because of fears of antagonizing non-Jews in those regions."

1940 - British Guiana - "the British Government decided that "the problem is at present too problematical to admit of the adoption of a definite policy and must be left for the decision of some future Government in years to come""

The Madagascar Plan and the Italian East Africa plans were both efforts by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to "solve Jewish problem" (YES THIS IS BAD). "Jews from Europe and Palestine would be resettled to the north-west Ethiopian districts of Gojjam and Begemder, along with the Beta Israel community."

1989 - Plans for the West Bank - Contemplation of a Second Jewish State - "Israeli settlers in the West Bank have mulled declaring independence as the State of Judea should Israel ever withdraw from the West Bank. In January 1989, several hundred activists met and announced their intention to create such a state in the event of Israeli withdrawal."

So yea, don't tell me about "homeland" when there were a shit ton of other ideas accepted within the Zionist ideal prior to SETTLING on Palestine. It's "homeland" cause that's where the British Empire could throw Israel. Not because they though it was the "right thing to do" or whatever thing Zionists claim now a days.